Behind the Wheel of the North American Car and Truck of the Year Awards: Insights and Automotive Evolutions

Car and Truck Awards in North America

Speaker 1 0:01

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast , a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am , central , anywhere , podcasting and streaming worldwide . It's the In Wheel Time car talk show just ahead . Author and award winning automotive journalist , jack Nehred joins us to talk about the winners of NACTOY , the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards . Conrad's going to have the In Wheel Time car clinic and we'll have this week's automotive news Howdy , along with Mike out of this World , mars King , conrad DeLong . We always need more . Jeff Zeek and I'm Don Armstrong . Thanks for joining us this morning and live from LA Hollywood . We're just going to say Hollywood because everybody else from Hollywood . It's not in Hollywood , it's Hollywood . Jack , the Hollywood Jack , jack , good morning to you , sir .

Speaker 3 0:58

Yeah , well , I first lived in Burbank and Johnny Carson came from beautiful downtown Burbank , but they called it Hollywood . So you're 100% right .

Speaker 2 1:05

Yeah , wow , first time I've been there . Did you ever ?

Speaker 3 1:10

go to the .

Speaker 1 1:11

Tonight Show .

Speaker 3 1:12

I did . Actually I wrote some material for a comedian who was on the Tonight Show , so that was kind of cool , Very cool . Yeah , that was way back in the day .

Speaker 2 1:22

Well , I will tell you , In the 80s Is Lenny Bruce Rodney Dangerfield ?

Speaker 3 1:26

Yeah , I did write for Rodney Dangerfield actually Did you . Yeah , that was not , but you can't get any respect .

Speaker 4 1:33

He was not the comic that I went and saw .

Speaker 2 1:34

Yeah , no respect for him .

Speaker 1 1:36

I still don't , yeah , so how are you ? Yeah , welcome to the show .

Speaker 3 1:41

Thank you .

Speaker 1 1:42

How are things out there in LA this morning ?

Speaker 3 1:45

A little shelly . Actually , we had about 44 degrees when I got up with the dog at four in the morning , and I think it's up to maybe 45 or 50 right now .

Speaker 1 1:55

Oh wow , so it's chilly out there . What's going on ?

Speaker 3 1:57

Yeah , a little cool here . Yeah , yeah , exactly I hear you're yearning for single digits , though , or something like that the wind chill factor is , on Monday , supposed to be in the single digits , and somebody will turn all the electricity off .

Speaker 4 2:12

When that happens , each one of us has a single digit .

Speaker 1 2:14

That's when the electrical grid fails when we need it the most , that's another story unto itself . We could have a whole another show Just on weather . Talk about the weather and the grid . Anyway , that's not what we talked to you this morning about . Congratulations on another successful year in the North American Car and Truck of the Year awards , and we thought we'd get your take on it . And how many awards are there ? How many categories are there , jack ?

Speaker 3 2:42

There are three big categories actually . There's car of the year , truck of the year and then utility of the year , which is our newest category . I think we added it about 10 years or so ago and we added it because sport utility vehicles were lumped in with trucks typically and they're very different animals right , so it kind of didn't make sense to have one or the other , so we decided to have both .

Speaker 1 3:06

Although many of those used to be based on , for the most part , car chassis , car bits underneath them .

Speaker 3 3:14

Well , and some had truck chassis too . That's right . So there were passenger vehicles . Trucks meant to tote stuff typically , Although there's plenty of people who are using them just as passenger cars these days . But sport utility is meant to haul people mostly , and so two different tasks , so we decided to switch it off .

Speaker 1 3:35

Were there any runner-ups or just three awards car , truck and utility .

Speaker 3 3:40

There were nine finalists , three in each category , so there were essentially two runners up in each category . I got you and then the winner .

Speaker 1 3:49

Well , I mean just the three that are nominated for each category . That's bragging rights in itself .

Speaker 3 3:56

Yeah , I think so . It's kind of like an Oscar nomination , right . I mean it's great to win the Oscar , but if you were nominated , that means you're being recognized by a lot of folks as top notch , and so being one of the top three in either of these , in any of these categories , is a terrific honor .

Speaker 1 4:14

How many people voted for these winners ?

Speaker 3 4:18

Our jury consists of 50 members . We keep it to 50 . They're from mostly from the United States . We have about half a dozen or so who are from Canada Obviously there are a much smaller country in terms of population than we are and all auto experts from different kind of different fields . There's some enthusiast writers , some industry writers , some people like me who are in bragging . I'm a broadcast media in addition to writing . So a nice combination of folks .

Speaker 1 4:51

Yeah , well , that's good , and so does everybody . Have a vote per category .

Speaker 3 4:58

They have the same sway . Let's put it that way . The way we do it is we , depending on what level we're at , whether we're voting for finalists or semi-finalists we have a different procedure where you can you get X number of , essentially , votes you can apportion to various cars . So in the finals I could have apportioned 10 points to my top car or split up that 10 points , you know . In any way , I wanted you know 631 , something like that .

Speaker 1 5:31

Yeah , did you do that ? Have you ever ? Have you ever taken that ? Did you ever take your whole 10 points and say that's the one and that's ?

Speaker 4 5:39

how you're stuffing the ballots I have .

Speaker 3 5:40

And when I thought one absolutely deserves to be the car of the year would be the winner , I would give them all of my 10 points . This time around it was a little more nuanced , so I spread the points around a little bit .

Speaker 1 5:54

And what do you mean by nuanced ?

Speaker 3 5:58

Well , I think when you look at , say , the car of the year field , okay , you had the Hyundai Ionic 6 , which happened to be World Car of the Year last year . You have the Honda Accord , which is a really really good car . Maybe not particularly exciting , but they've done a marvelous job with that car , especially at the price . And then you had the winner , the Toyota Prius at Prius Prime , which are undoubtedly the best hybrids and plug-in hybrids as cars ever . So you really have a nice combination and you know , personally I really like both the Accord and the Prius and so I split my votes mostly between those two vehicles . Interesting , interesting .

Speaker 1 6:41

And when you really had your eye set on the winner , how did that play out with all of the other journalists ? Did they kind of go along ? Not that they knew what your vote was , but did ? They kind of feel the same way .

Speaker 3 6:55

I think a lot of times . Yes , I think a couple years ago the mid-engine Chevy Corvette was our car of the year and a little bit of you know off the beaten track for us , because we typically choose vehicles that are very mainstream , that are every person kind of cars , as opposed to a Corvette . Corvette is kind of borderline there . I mean , it is incredible value for what you pay for it , but it's a more expensive car than the typical person is going to pay for .

Speaker 1 7:25

Yeah , and you , I assume , and I would do the same thing , I would assume that you would go for probably the biggest seller car , at least you know what is it . That really strikes me as an overall value and really a good looking pack Like a Camry or something like an Accord or something like that , that more people would buy than , say , for instance , a Corvette .

Speaker 3 7:50

Yeah , that figures into it pretty significantly , and you see that I mean Prius is a pretty high volume car . Certainly the Corvette is a very high volume car . Another thing that's important too is we like to pick vehicles that we believe are going to be the segment leader , and that really came into play on Truck of the Year , where we chose the Ford Super Duty . The other contenders are good vehicles . There were two Chevys actually the Chevy Silverado EV and the Chevy Colorado , which is , you know , a really good mid-sized truck , but to our mind , or to my mind anyway , the Ford Super Duty is the segment leader . It is the segment leading heavy duty truck , whereas Colorado's good , but I don't know that it's better than the upcoming Toyota Tacoma , for example , or some of the others in the segment .

Speaker 4 8:45

So has Nactoy had any consideration about having a maybe a subcategory for the EVs ? Because in what I'm seeing in your nine finalists , the three per category , there's an intermingling of EVs and actually in the utility vehicle of the year , all three of them were EVs .

Speaker 3 9:08

Right

Comparing Vehicle Types

Speaker 3 9:09

. I mean we consider EVs and we've considered having separate categories , but our thinking was number one we want to keep it very tight . You know you could name 10 , 12 vehicles , something of the year , but that would diminish the value of , I think , the car of the year .

Speaker 1 9:27

I agree with you . I agree with you totally , yes , wholeheartedly , because so ? And we Well go ahead , don no , I'm just going to say because in the end it's a vehicle that gets you from point A to point B , no matter what engine you choose . And to me , at least at this point in my life , when I look at all of the vehicles out there , you know you may like the EV , you may like the plug-in , jeff likes the gasoline motor and I like the gasoline motor . So you know there's parity in that to me .

Speaker 3 9:58

Yeah , and we feel that vehicles have to compete against one another . Evs have to compete against gasoline cars and have to compete against hybrids . And you know some vehicles the Hyundai Kona , for example , comes in a couple of different flavors . Right , and that works to their advantage . The fact that the Prius is both available as a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid , I think worked , is its advantage and probably was the deciding factor .

Speaker 1 10:24

Interesting , yes , and that would be kind of like . Let me think about that for a minute . So there's the plug-in hybrid and the true hybrid and I'm going , I'm thinking I'm going to go with the hybrid myself At this point in my life . That's what I'm going to go with because of the ease of getting the battery charged .

Speaker 4 10:44

And the distance .

Speaker 1 10:45

And the distance . Yeah , Like a real , real , real , real , real , real real , real , real , and I'm sure that those kind of factors play into the voting as well , Jeff oh absolutely Absolutely .

Speaker 3 10:53

The good thing about a plug-in hybrid is you can operate it as an electric vehicle until the battery is spent , and then you have that gasoline motor essentially as your lifeboat to save you . When that's gone , a lot of people can get by probably operating it as an electric vehicle for around town errands or fairly short commutes , that kind of thing at Infinitum right . But then when they want to go to Grandma's house in West Texas or something like that , it's a whole different thing . And yet they don't have the issues they would have if they had a pure EV .

Speaker 1 11:27

Yeah Well , and you know , and where you are out in California , I know that there's a lot more support , technically speaking , with chargers . They're much more plentiful out there . So if you get caught a little bit short on your charge on your plug-in hybrid or your plug-in electric , you know you can find a place that you can plug it in and get charged , whereas if you're going between here and San Antonio , say that the charging network , just the infrastructure , isn't quite there yet and could be a problem if you're going to go on from San Antonio , as you mentioned , to West Texas .

Speaker 3 12:05

Yeah , I could be very difficult and you know the technology keeps changing . We have a lot of charges out here , but a lot of them are level-2 chargers . They're not fast chargers . And now the trend of course is the fast charging . Nobody wants to sit at a charger for hours and hours to leave their vehicle on it on a charger for a long period of time . I , it's owner , us enough to be . I think this is a sit at a charger for half an hour At a fast charger to get top and that's where I am right now .

Speaker 1 12:34

You know , I just can't imagine myself having a choice of going . Let's see , I can get a car that basically gets 40 miles per gallon of gasoline and I can put all of that little bit of gasoline in there and go from here to San Antonio and still have gas left over , and it with a five-minute fill up , as opposed to Three stops between Houston and San Antonio just to get there to keep it charged .

Speaker 4 13:01

There's an hour and a half out of my life plus money , because if you stop , you're gonna stop with a buckies .

Speaker 1 13:08

You know money , even worse , a Walmart another thing , jack .

Speaker 4 13:13

You know it seems like Hyundai , the Hyundai Kia sisterhood , has made great inroads and Nactoy , you know with what is it ? Five of them . Four of them of the nine were nominated .

Speaker 3 13:27

Yeah , they think they just build really good vehicles . I mean , they're engineering stuff that that looks great . That is a high value , high quality . It seems like their reliability is quite high , so they've really come a long , long way .

Speaker 1 13:41

But you know , jack it . To that end , let's talk for just a minute about Asian cars , because obviously that is one . Those are Korean and as opposed to Japanese , I think that the Japanese , even though it's an Asian car . I think that the Japanese cars seem to have a little bit more quality to them , do you ?

Speaker 3 14:02

well , it depends on how you measure quality , and you know I talked to the people at JD power a lot and they measure quality by essentially by lack of problem , right , yeah , and ? And they also Look at reliability by lack of problems are just over a longer period of time . Some of those problems are just , they're not anything mechanical or technical , something really that's gone wrong . They revolve around people not being not understanding how to use something . Infotainment systems are key , and then you have issues with Connecting Apple CarPlay or Android Auto . You guys probably all experienced that . Anybody who does car testing has had .

Speaker 3 14:45

Oh yes that's with Apple CarPlay .

Speaker 1 14:48

Oh , that kind of thing yes .

Speaker 3 14:49

That's counted as a problem . That's not necessarily . It's not gonna strand you by the side of the road correct . But it is irritating .

Speaker 4 14:57

Yeah , you can't discount the nut behind the loose nut behind the wheel . True enough .

Speaker 1 15:02

Absolutely , and you're speaking to one right here .

Speaker 3 15:07

Five of us on this panel .

Speaker 1 15:09

That's it . So , jack , what is the car of the year ?

Speaker 3 15:14

The car of the year is the Toyota Prius .

Speaker 1 15:17

The Toyota Prius , the non plug-in Toyota Prius . Well , actually both in prime , yeah , both of them Prius and prime . Got you Okay , and the truck is the Chevy heavy-duty , no Ford .

Speaker 4 15:28

Ford .

Speaker 1 15:29

Super Duty .

Speaker 3 15:29

Ford .

Speaker 1 15:29

Super Duty Gotcha , that'd be the 250 250 , 350 250 on up , yeah on , and the utility .

Speaker 3 15:39

The utility is the key EV9 , the first you know kind of affordable three-row electric vehicle .

Speaker 1 15:45

I don't know . I don't believe that I've had an EV9 . Have you had one of those bars ? Yeah , you haven't . You need to turn your microphone on good , good looking car .

Speaker 4 15:54

I've seen them . I've seen it . Yeah , I've not have you driven ?

Speaker 1 15:57

Obviously , if you've driven it , jack , what do you think I have driven it .

Speaker 3 16:02

There's absolutely a ton to like about it . In fact , that it's a three-row is really a breakthrough . It's essentially on the same platform as the EV6 . It's taller , it's about the same length , but they wedge in a third row . That's a fairly reasonable third row , I think . When the third row is being used , it doesn't have a ton of cargo space behind the third row . It is certainly not the equivalent of a full-size conventional SUV Three-row SUV , but it's absolutely a step in that direction and I think it's going to be very , very important and and Kia looks at it as their flagship of their EV line . The way that they look at the telluride is the flagship of their gasoline line , yeah , and did it feel heavy ?

Speaker 3 16:52

It actually feels pretty good , I think they . The saving grace , as you guys know , with electrics is the instant torque , right , yeah , right . So they are heavy , there's no doubt about it . I mean there's , you know , at least a thousand pounds of battery . I've got to believe , under the floorboards there and you kind of feel that . But I think I've maybe come to terms with that a little bit and I think they're doing a better job of making that less obtrusive .

Speaker 1 17:21

Jack , it's always great to talk to you . We thank you so much for joining us today . Enjoy that warm , warm California sunshine today just for us .

Speaker 3 17:30

Yeah , I'm looking forward to it .

Speaker 1 17:31

I'll try and get outside All right , Well , and so what are we going to talk to you next ?

Speaker 3 17:37

Well , as soon as you want me . I always enjoy talking to you guys , so it's a real pleasure for me . I'll do it any time , thank , you , jack .

Speaker 1 17:44

We appreciate . You have a great day and we'll talk to you again soon .

Speaker 3 17:47

Sounds terrific . You guys have a great day . Thanks you too .

Gasoline Quality and Car Maintenance

Speaker 1 17:50

Thank you . Conrad's car clinic . Oh boy , what is the clinic today ?

Speaker 4 17:55

We'll talk about what makes gasoline good or bad . Okay , varnish is bad . Well , varnish is the result of the gasoline not burning properly . But we're all familiar with different octane ratings of gasoline . When you pull up to the gas pump you can choose 87 , 89 , 92 , 93 fuel , and all those different octane ratings are available at most gas stations . The higher the octane rating is often referred to as premium fuel is all about controlling detonation in the engine .

Speaker 4 18:32

Premium fuel does not necessarily burn cleaner than a regular fuel and premium fuel is purely about octane . So the value of it . You've got to look at what your manufacturer requirement is for the octane reading for the vehicle that you drive . So if it's a high compression engine , turbocharger , supercharged engine , most probable it's going to call for a premium fuel because they want to control detonation in those engines . That spark knock can be pretty damaging to an engine . So the quality of gasoline the average cost of a new car today is somewhere around $48,000 , not counting for the EVs With a price point nearing $50,000, .

Speaker 4 19:15

It only makes sense that you do everything possible to take good care of your vehicle . That includes filling the tank with a high quality gasoline . The worst gasoline brands in the nation are non-top-tier fuel . You got to remember top-tier fuels were something that were come around in about 1995 when Audi , bmw , gm , honda , toyota and Volkswagen all went to the fuel industry , the gasoline industry , and said , look , we need a fuel that has a higher content of deposit cleaning agents to keep the injectors , combustion chambers and intake systems clean . So those manufacturers , those fuel manufacturers , came out with what's called top-tier and there's a list for top-tier fuels and I'm going to post it on our social media Valero .

Speaker 1 20:06

Exxon Shell yeah .

Speaker 4 20:10

Valero , exxon , shell , texaco , let's see Costco , Costco , diamond , shamrock , gull , marathon , mobile , phillips 66 , arco 76 , citgo . Those are all top-tier fuels .

Speaker 2 20:29

Citgo's Venezuelan yeah .

Speaker 1 20:31

You know it's interesting . If I may just jump in here to say to you , there was a fueling station called the Fuel Depot that I used to get fuel at is down off of Main Street and the guy had pulled the truck in there and he just finished and I didn't really care if it got dirt in the fuel system or not , but at any rate I asked him . I said because there's no label on the side of the tanker . I said so where'd you get the fuel ? Oh , over in Pasadena . I said no , no , no , no . What brand of fuel is it ? Oh , I can't tell you that . I said come on , man , of course you can . It was Conoco . It was Conoco Fuel . Now that's got additives in it . Yep , conoco was a top-tier brand , so it was a top-tier brand , but they didn't advertise that on the Fuel Depot place . No , you didn't know that you were buying Conoco Fuel .

Speaker 4 21:24

And Sam's Club does the same thing . Sam's Club may be buying fuel and Kroger's may be buying fuel from different vendors , so kind of the top-tier kind of comes in and goes out but it's not considered top-tier fuel . Well , you were talking about the Costco fuel .

Speaker 2 21:40

You mentioned it .

Speaker 4 21:43

Costco doesn't do their own refining . No , no , no , but they're the vendor who provides them with their fuel is always a top tier fuel provider . Okay , okay . So you gotta think you know a lot of those are , you know , a station , an independent station . They buy their fuel from whoever their fuel right , what are ?

Speaker 2 22:00

Buckeys is Buckeys , isn't .

Speaker 4 22:02

Well , buckeys wasn't on the list at all . Beaver nuggets , you know , and my point too is your car calls for a certain octane rating . Get that octane rating If you want longevity without having issues with the car . Get a top tier fuel . You know , and all of that relates back to you know , the better you take care of your car , the longer it's gonna last . You know , those who are not top tier fuels are BP is not top tier , which surprised me . I figured BP would be . Circle K is not Speedway , amco is not , loves is not Murphy's Pilot J Safeway and Sam's Club is intermittently top tier but not consistently top tier Interesting .

Speaker 4 22:46

I didn't know that so there's a reason why that fuel is slightly cheaper than what you see at the shell right .

Speaker 5 22:54

What you see at the shell on Texacra .

Speaker 4 22:55

Water is the antidote Is that the fuel truly is cheaper because they don't have the higher content of deposit cleaning agents .

Speaker 1 23:02

Well , I have to tell you that I filled up the Corvette last weekend All right With the 93 octane Exxon 50 bucks , $50 .

Speaker 4 23:13

Welcome to my world . It's been costing me about 60 bucks to fill the Yukon up . Oh my , gosh .

Speaker 1 23:18

Well , you know I'm buying big expensive fuel at the for the Corvette , so you know , at baby that thing , you need an Oklahoma credit card .

Speaker 2 23:27

That's a siphon .

Speaker 4 23:28

It's a siphon , oh gosh . But yeah , top tier fuels do make a difference and I highly recommend , if you're going longevity on your vehicles , to use top tier fuels . May cost you a little bit in the short run , but it'll save you money in the long run .

Speaker 1 23:44

Hertz Global Holdings plans to sell a third of its US electric vehicle fleet and reinvest in gasoline powered cars due to weak demand for the battery powered options . The sales of 20,000 EVs began last month and will continue over the course of 2024 . The retail giant said Thursday in a regulatory filing Hertz expects a record to record , rather a non-cash charge in its fourth quarter results of $245 million related to incremental net depreciation expense .

Speaker 3 24:19

That's how much they're losing .

Speaker 1 24:22

The company expects to reinvest a portion of the proceeds from the sale of EVs into the purchase of internal combustion engine vehicles to meet customer demand . Hertz said the company expects this action to better balance supply against expected demand of EVs . Hertz shares were down 4.2% to $8.95 when the market closed Thursday . The stock declined 32% last year .

Speaker 2 24:47

Can I add something to that ? They're mainly 21 and 22 models and they're high mileage , that's the main thing .

Speaker 4 24:53

They're above 50,000 in less than a month .

Speaker 2 24:56

On the EVs . They're high mileage EVs and they're 21 , 22 .

Speaker 4 24:59

And you gotta think people don't treat rent cars well .

Speaker 2 25:02

No .

Speaker 4 25:03

Are you ?

Speaker 2 25:03

serious , surely you just .

Speaker 4 25:05

Who sent the video ? What do ?

Speaker 1 25:07

you guys send to me I sent you the video .

Speaker 3 25:11

That was just hilarious .

Speaker 1 25:13

During the week I sent Conrad some videos of people that have misused their cars . I like the ones where they weld things , poorly welded things , to the engine block , suspension parts , exhaust systems . It's like how do you even think of stuff like that ?

Speaker 4 25:32

I'll go all the way back to 1965 or 66 , when Hertz was selling the Shelby . We have the Mushanks . The Shelby GT350H and people had rented for the day . Take it home , pull the 306 horsepower 289 out , put a regular one in , send it back to Hertz .

Speaker 1 25:50

Genius it was . Yes , by the way , we didn't get chance to get to himming silk cars round up , but I got one for Jeff here in 1968 . Chrysler Town in Country wagon . There it is . Guess how much that that beauty went for with the wood . Wood siding , wood vinyl 10,878 dollars . I was thinking like 14 , but that's that's here's one for you , Jeff A 41 Cadillac 62 red convertible . Look at that beauty , it's gorgeous 36,700 .

Speaker 4 26:19

A 41 . A 41 . Unusual convertible . Because they were very , very few , 41 built have you been watching the Meekum .

Speaker 2 26:25

I watched maybe 10 minutes of it . There was a 69 Corvette convertible and it went for $400,000 . Why ?

Speaker 4 26:35

Well , there was also a well , I think that was a custom . There was also a 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass that went for $100,000 .

Speaker 2 26:44

And you look at those and I just saw that run by last year .

Speaker 1 26:46

Who last Meekum by the way , and I have a car for Mars . Oh yay , this one's for you , Mars . It's a 1983 Chrysler LaBaron . Oh gosh .

Speaker 2 26:58

With Corinthian leather ?

Speaker 1 27:00

No , but it's got wood siding on it and it's still in the crate . No , it's a convertible and it sold for $7,500 . That's for you . We're going to wrap up today's in wheel time car talk show right after a quick break , we'll be right back .

Speaker 5 27:16

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Speaker 1 29:45

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Speaker 1 30:17

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